We're beginning to enter an era where it gets really cheap and really fast to begin to do things like make fuels, and make textiles, and make extra teeth for ourselves. And we're beginning to think about how we regrow our bladders.

The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.

Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.

It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

Cities are magical things. You know the energy in them. You have to walk the streets in any borough here and you can see between what was in this city in the 1970's and where it is today and how much more energy there is and how much more just sheer.

The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.